"I suggest that Comrade Verak come back first. His identity is too special. Leaving him in the fake organization will inevitably lead to risks over time. What if his identity is discovered when the fake gang is exposed?
It will inevitably make the people think that this matter is indeed related to us, and everything will be even more inexplicable." Old Mellen believed that the first thing to do was to get Verak back, and they sent people to monitor the situation secretly.
"His rash departure may arouse the suspicion and vigilance of those people, and we currently lack evidence and more information. With Verak working as an undercover agent in the fake organization, the overall benefits outweigh the risks." Keating held the opposite opinion.
"Then do you have any good countermeasures?" Benedick knew Keating's background and saw that Verak had pinned his hopes on Keating to solve the problem, and he couldn't help but be full of expectations.
Keating thought: "First of all, report this matter to President Boyne, and find out as soon as possible whether there are people in other areas pretending to be members of the Equality Society and defrauding them, and whether these people have connections with the government."
Nord, who was also woken up from his sleep by Benedick and came to join the meeting, said: "That man François can do anything. I think the government must be carrying out the same shameful work in many places, and
He is still the main planner."
"If it's just an individual act, just follow the original plan. If it's the latter, then in the face of such a big crisis, I think no matter how we come forward to clarify, we can't convince everyone, so we can only guide the people to discover for themselves.
The truth." Keating gave the best solution he could think of.
"Guide the people?" Several other people attending the meeting looked at each other.
How to guide the people?
"You ignored the second half of the sentence. The point is to guide the people to discover the truth for themselves. Rather than listening to what others say, it's better to see it with your own eyes, right? So we don't need to reveal too much about this matter. It doesn't mean anything if anyone says too much now.
It will only interfere with the people's self-judgment. We only need to secretly guide the people to discover the anomaly, and then guide them to search for the truth." Keating said.
Keating hopes to break the government's conspiracy by allowing the people to recognize the facts themselves.
"That makes sense."
"Comrade Keating is right. Nothing we say at this time is enough to completely clear away the suspicion. The best way is to let them investigate on their own. I believe they will see the true face of the government."
"That's right!"
Several people unanimously agreed with Keating's idea.
The attentive Murphy said: "I also agree with Mr. Keating's idea. In addition, I have another doubtful point. I remember when Verak came in the evening and said, there was a fake organization in Kip City at least a month ago.
. And the letter Benedick just brought also mentioned that the fake organization earned 3,400 gold grams today.
That is, more than 300 people were defrauded in one day. By simple calculation, it is estimated that 10,000 people were defrauded in Kip City alone during this period. I feel that after such a long time, some of these 10,000 people must have discovered something unusual.
But what’s strange is why, even though the public didn’t stir up any movement, everyone is still rushing to give money to the counterfeiters?”
"...You're right, why don't so many people react?" Keating realized that there might be a problem in this area. After a month passed, there would always be people who were deceived and noticed that something was wrong.
"I have always been puzzled by this. Our sub-station often visits the streets and has in-depth contacts and exchanges with the people. If there was a fake organization a month ago and it has defrauded tens of thousands of people during this period, it is impossible for us not to
I know." Benedick quickly followed.
He felt a little aggrieved in the morning.
The comrades at the sub-station are obviously working very hard, but out of nowhere a fake gang appears that they have never discovered. The workers also keep saying that this gang was active in Kip City a month ago, which makes Chang Chang feel proud of the sub-station.
They were humiliated in front of cadres like Verak and Keating.
But now that I think about it, this matter is indeed weird. It is impossible for them not to know about it. Even if they don't know, don't so many Equality Association branches in other places know about it?
Is it possible that the government’s methods of contacting the people are more in-depth than the Equality Association? So much so that it has deceived hundreds of thousands or even millions of people, but the Equality Association, which has always been at one with the people, only realized it later?
"Who on earth said that this group has been showing up for a month?" Keating asked Benedick, who was staying with Verak during the day.
"They are workers in our factory." Benedick explained in detail what happened in the canteen at noon. "At that time, several of us were having lunch together in the canteen. Comrade Verak suddenly heard the workers at the next table discussing whether to join the Equality Association.
They also said that they had to pay an application fee and so on, so I asked them about the situation.
Situation. One of the workers said that the Equality Association went to the light industrial zone to recruit people today. They only need to pay a membership fee of ten gold grams to become a member of the Equality Association. Comrade Verak also specifically confirmed the time with them.
The worker said personally that he had heard about the Equality Jobs recruitment event a month ago."
"The worker's intentions may be good, but the content may not be correct enough." Keating was confident, "He himself said it was just hearsay. How can the things he heard be treated as solid facts? And time
It’s also easy to blur. It’s just something I’ve heard about. Listen to it specifically.
The time and content of what was said will inevitably become blurred over time, and it is entirely possible to associate it with something later and form a wrong memory. In short, the words of this worker alone cannot be used as a basis. We need to
This matter will be investigated by multiple parties and the time will be reconfirmed."
"Is time important?" Nord asked.
Keating nodded: "Of course it is important. Time is an important basis for us to estimate the number of victims. If the worker really had a disordered memory and provided us with wrong information, and the fake organization was actually active for much less than a month, then the situation would be
Correspondingly not that bad.”
"The shorter the time, the fewer victims and areas where this plan will be implemented, and the lower the negative impact it will have on our equality." Old Mellen sincerely hoped that the worker had remembered the wrong time.
Mistakes that benefit them are much better than facts that go against them.
"I'm going to call Comrade Winston and Comrade Andre at the weaving factory to confirm!" Benedick couldn't wait to make the call.
This matter is very important to him, not only to reduce the impact of this matter on the Equality Association, but also to prove that the Kip City branch is not that bad and will not be aware of the fake organization for a month.
"I'm also going to report the situation to President Boyne." Old Mellen stood up, but quickly sat down, "Forget it, let's wait until we come to a conclusion."
"It's almost two o'clock in the morning. President Boyne should take a rest." Comrade Catherine, who was previously responsible for personnel management at the sub-station and now mainly handles Keating's team and provides them with assistance, looked at the time and said.
"No." Nord smiled at Catherine, "President Boyne is always the one who goes to bed the latest and gets up the earliest. In my eyes, he doesn't seem to rest. As long as I go to him
, he is always there.”
"I once went to see him at four o'clock in the morning and he was still there," Murphy said.
Catherine is from Kip City and has been working here since she joined the Equality Association. She has not had much interaction with the president: "Isn't this going to make you tired?"
"No, he is Boyin." In Nord's mind, Boyin is always calm and able to arrange everything calmly. There is no way he will fall.
"In recent months, as the work in the Equality Association has become busier and busier, his health has indeed deteriorated visibly." Keating noticed Boyin's physical condition during this period. He had the impression that Boyin's previous figure was
Capable, he has lost a lot of weight now and can't even eat much. "It's just that he is more stubborn than Verak. No one can persuade him to stop being so tired."
"All we can do is build a new world as soon as possible. Only in this way can he have a good rest and have a long sleep, haha..." Nord laughed.
Keating doesn't think so: "After the new world arrives, there will be many problems waiting for us to solve, and Boyne will only be busier by then."
"Then it's up to you. If the school cultivates more talents, it can lighten the burden on the president and others," Catherine said.
"Yeah." Keating agreed, this was the only way.
After a while, Benedick ran back excitedly: "Two things! The first thing is that Comrade Winston and Comrade Andre went to the worker to confirm, but the worker suddenly was not sure about the specific time.
He said it could be three to five days, or it could be a week, but he didn’t really know!”
"Sure enough, he only heard it mentioned by others, and it was not necessarily this matter that others mentioned. He was randomly associated with it and formed a wrong memory in his subconscious." Keating has never seen this kind of situation, so he never
Don't trust words such as 'heard and heard', "go investigate as soon as possible and try to determine the time."
"Comrade Andre has already started the investigation, and it is estimated that the exact time will be available soon!" Benedick said with a smile on his face, "The second thing is that the first day's output of the Nak Weaving Factory has been released.
, which is five times the original output! We have directly achieved our first goal! We have achieved a balance of payments! As long as we can maintain this and improve and adjust deficiencies, we are very hopeful that we can achieve our second goal!"
"Breaking even on the first day?! Then there is still great potential for development in the future. Making money shouldn't be a problem!" Nord and others were surprised.
Keating was not surprised at all. When a man like Verak, who often creates miracles, collides with a once-in-a-century genius like Winston, there is hardly anything they can’t do: “With such a group of outstanding young people,
It is normal for people to achieve such results after working hard day and night."
"They said they had just finished reporting to President Boyne and were about to call us, so I called first." Benedick sat down and took a deep breath. He personally participated in the reform and construction of Nack Weaving Factory.
Among them, today's success is due to his efforts. Before, he actually had a big question mark in his mind about whether the weaving factory could succeed. Now it is really half successful, making him feel like he is in a dream, "I am really
I never thought we would succeed, or that it would go so smoothly."
"Such success is based on Winston's years of research and the hard work of the Equality Society, which has developed to the point where it now has the ability to provide testing. Therefore, it was not completed in a week, but relied on success.
It took tens of thousands of people years of accumulation and sacrifice to make everything seem so easy now." What Keating saw was the efforts of countless people that made today possible, rather than just a few of them changing the world in a week.
"You are right!" said Benedick.
The workers' statement that they "heard they were hiring a month ago" is doubtful. The news about the counterfeit gang most likely only started to appear in the past few days, greatly reducing their pressure.
The great victory of Nak Weaving Factory on the first day also boosted their morale.
Now when we look at the fake gangs planned and supported by the government, they are full of fighting spirit and no longer as depressed as they were a few minutes ago.
"Comrade Mellen, do you think if a counterfeit gang appears in Kip City, when will the sub-station be aware of it?" Keating asked.
"It can't be more than three days." Old Mellen actually felt that one day was enough. He reported three days because he was afraid that something would go wrong again.
"Then let's study the situation in three days." Keating analyzed and planned from the beginning. "Three days will not be enough for the government to spread this plan to many places. It is estimated that the plans have just begun.
It is difficult to deceive a considerable number of people. This is very beneficial to us, as long as we can
If we guide the people to discover the truth and spread the news in a very short period of time, the government's plan will have to be suspended. Even if our guidance is not smooth enough, a few days will not be enough to cause a huge negative impact. As long as the trouble becomes too big, the people will
If we heighten our vigilance, it is equivalent to blocking one of the ways for the government to fight back against us."
"I'm relatively optimistic. I think it's possible that Kip City is currently the only one, or one of the few places where fake gangs are deployed." Nord thought in a better direction, "because Kip City is far away from Laize.
Because recently, apart from us, the president has not received any news about counterfeit gangs from sub-stations in other places. François might just want to test the waters with Kip City first, and if everything goes well, then
Promote it to more places and make adjustments if it doesn’t go well.”
Keating affirmed part of Nord's thinking: "This matter also has certain risks for the government. If it is fully rolled out but not done well, and they are caught, it will have a huge negative impact on themselves and make equality more difficult."
It will be more supported by the people. It is not unreasonable for Nord to say that Francois will first test the water in Kip City, which is closest to Lezein, to ensure that the implementation is foolproof."
Old Mellen said "Yeah": "Now that we have the basic conclusion, I think we can report it to the president. Let's see if there are any new investigation results from the president. If other sub-stations have not found any counterfeit products,
If there are traces of the gang, or the fake gang has just become active, then the matter will be much easier to handle."